Scipio - SHOE15
Title
Scipio - SHOE15
Identifier
SHOE15
Subject
African Americans--History, African Americans--History--To 1863, Artisans, Shoemakers
Source
South Carolina Gazette
Date
October 12, 1769
Trade
Shoemaker
Gender
Male
Enslaver
Moses Mitchell
Home Location
South Carolina
Events
1. Formerly enslaved by Champernown Hondien
2. Self-emancipated from Moses Mitchell
2. Self-emancipated from Moses Mitchell
Item Type
Advertisement
Transcription
Twenty Pounds Reward

Run away on Monday last,
A Likely Carolina-born NEGRO FELLOW, named SCIPIO, a Shoemaker by Trade, about Twenty-eight Years of Age, a little pitted with the Small-Pox, sensible, and speaks very good English; can read, and writes a pretty good Hand, of which he may probably avail himself, by furnishing himself with a Ticket in his Master's Name: Had on when he went away, a blue Negro Cloth Jacket, and Trowsers, and is supposed to be harboured either in or about this Town, or gone into the Country, perhaps to wards Black-Mingo, where he formerly belonged to Mr. Champernown Hondien.
Whoever harbours, entertains, or employs him, will be prose-cuted with the utmost Severity. But whoever will deliver him to his Master, or to the Warden of the Work-House, shall have TWENTY POUNDS Reward. from
Sept. 30th, 1769. MOSES MITCHELL
N.B. is the said Fellow will return to his Duty, within Fortv-eight Hours, his past Offence will be forgiven.
Run away on Monday last,
A Likely Carolina-born NEGRO FELLOW, named SCIPIO, a Shoemaker by Trade, about Twenty-eight Years of Age, a little pitted with the Small-Pox, sensible, and speaks very good English; can read, and writes a pretty good Hand, of which he may probably avail himself, by furnishing himself with a Ticket in his Master's Name: Had on when he went away, a blue Negro Cloth Jacket, and Trowsers, and is supposed to be harboured either in or about this Town, or gone into the Country, perhaps to wards Black-Mingo, where he formerly belonged to Mr. Champernown Hondien.
Whoever harbours, entertains, or employs him, will be prose-cuted with the utmost Severity. But whoever will deliver him to his Master, or to the Warden of the Work-House, shall have TWENTY POUNDS Reward. from
Sept. 30th, 1769. MOSES MITCHELL
N.B. is the said Fellow will return to his Duty, within Fortv-eight Hours, his past Offence will be forgiven.
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